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The Coronation Chair. " Behold the ' Lia Phael ' ! " 

Frontispiece. 



Uictoria 

Queen of flnglo=T$rael 



A PROSE EPIC 
BY 

NELLIE DEANS TAYLOR 



ILLUSTRATIONS BY 

AUGUSTUS GEORGE HEATON 



new york & washington 

The Neale Publishing Company 

1903 



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'frhe Author has adopted the style of old 
English used in the King James ver- 
sion of the Bible, with due reverence, to 
show the apparent unity of the history of 
Israel and Anglo -Israel. 



Dedicated 

to 

mr$. Anna maria Dandridge $mitb 



Preface 

This writing is not intended to 
be of a controversial nature. A 
number of traditions and authentic 
facts, with the strange coinci- 
dences noted, have been thrown 
together into a prose epic, which it 
is hoped will be acceptable for its 
literary merit, and as suggesting 
a solution of the marvelous do- 
minion of the Anglo-Saxon race 
in all parts of the earth. 



Rosewll" 

June 20 , 1903. 

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Uictoria 

Queen of flnglo-Tsrael 



Uictoria 

Queen of flttglo Israel 

/^V ow it came to pass, after Israel 
\£r was carried away from the 
land of their fathers, in captivity 
and punishment for their idolatries 
and sins against the God of Abra- 
ham, Isaac, and Jacob, that the 
Lord scattered them among the 
nations of the earth " as fine as 
wheat" (as the prophets had 



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spoken), "yet was none lost," save 
to the histories and knowledge of 
men. 

But the tribe of Judah remained 
yet at Jerusalem, according to the 
promise of the Lord unto Solomon 
(I Kings xi : 13), while the lost 
tribes of Israel wandered to and 
fro among the nations, " persecuted 
but not forsaken " ; till many for- 
got the land of their fathers and 
were forgotten of them. 

And as they sought out a new 
land, where the soles of their feet 
might find rest from the sins and 
oppressions of the nations, a rem- 



QUEEN OF ANGLO-ISRAEL 15 

nant gathered themselves into " the 
islands of the uttermost parts of 
the West," now called the Islands 
of Britain. And they dwelt among 
the people, and became of one blood 
with them, and sought to be brave 
and true of heart. 

So the Lord remembered His 
people (though they knew Him 
not), and His promise to the chil- 
dren of Jacob, that He would turn 
when they turned unto righteous- 
ness, and that verily no weapon 
formed against them should pros- 
per. So that when Julius, sur- 
named Caesar, over-ran all the 



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earth, lie subdued not Britain, for 
the sake of the remnant that was 
therein. Yet Caesar made him 
strongholds there for a time. 

And the tribe of Judah, which 
was left as a remnant at Jerusalem 
in Judea, abode there for an hun- 
dred and twenty years, after the 
lost tribes of Israel were carried 
away ; but in the reign of Zed- 
ekiah, the last of the kings of 
Judah, he and " all but the lowest 
sort " of his people were carried 
captive unto Babylon b}' Nebu- 
chadnezzar. 

And Nebuchadnezzar, king of 



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Babylon, slew all the sons of Zed- 
ekiah before his face, and put out 
his eyes, lest, seeing other sights, 
he should forget that dreadful mo- 
ment ! But Jeremiah the Prophet 
took the king's daughter Circa, a 
little maiden of tender years, and 
fled with her into Egypt, to Tah- 
penes, the palace of Jeremiah, 
which is known to wise men unto 
this day. (The palace and its 
mural inscriptions were discovered 
in Egypt by Dr. Petrie, the archae- 
ologist, in 1886. See also II Kings 

xxv : 26.) 

And he dwelt there in peace, for 



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a remnant of the people fled also 
into Egypt. 

Now Jeremiah the Prophet was 
the father of Hamutal (see II Kings 
xxiv : 18), the wife of Josiah and 
the mother of Zedekiah, kings of 
Jndah; so that the royal maiden 
Circa was the great-grandchild of 
Jeremiah the Prophet. 

And the Prophet knew that Her- 
emon, a prince of Israel, dwelt in 
the " uttermost parts of the West " 
(now called Ireland) and that his 
people called him " Tuatha de 
Danan," which in the Celtic 
tongue is " Prince of the Tribe 
of Dan." 



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And Jeremiah the Prophet took 
the royal maiden Circa, and the 
Coronation Stone, which he had 
taken in his flight from the Temple 
at Jerusalem, and he set forth across 
the seas, until he came to the land 
of Heremon, which is Ireland as 
is known at this day. 

Now, the Coronation Stone, 
known of many as the " Dominion 
Stone/' is the pillow whereon Jacob 
slept when he saw the vision of 
the angels of God ascending and 
descending the ladder of Heaven. 
And Jacob called the place "Bethel" 
(the House of God), and he set up 



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the stone for a pillar, and ponred 
oil upon it, and consecrated it to be 
an altar nnto the God of Jacob, who 
snrnamed him Is-ra-el (a Prince of 
God), and blessed him and his seed 
forever (Genesis xxviii : 13 and 
xxxv : 10, 11, 12). 

And all the kings of Jndah, from 
Sanl and David, even unto Zed- 
ekiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar car- 
ried captive unto Babylon, were 
crowned beside the Coronation 
Stone, which they kept in the 
Temple at Jerusalem, from the 
days of Solomon till Jeremiah fled 
into Egypt with the stone and the 
maiden of the royal line of David. 




" And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon 
him and gave him the testimony. (And behold the king stood by a 
pillar, as the manner was.) And they made him king and anointed 
him ; and they clapped their hands and said : 

" 'God save the King ! ' " 

(II Kings xi: It, U.) 



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And it came to pass when Her- 
emon, Prince of the Tribe of Dan, 
beheld Circa, that his soul longed 
for the maiden, for she was very 
fair, as Sarah, and Rachel, and 
Rebekah were fair to look upon. 

And Heremon besought the 
Prophet to give him the maiden 
to be his wife. Then Jeremiah 
opened all his heart unto Here- 
mon, and told him that Circa, his 
great-grandchild, was of the seed 
royal of Judah, a Princess of the 
Line of David ! 

And at Tara he gave him the 
maiden in marriage, and blessed 



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them and crowned them beside the 
Coronation Stone, and left it to be 
a sign unto them, and to their 
children, a witness to God's cove- 
nant with Israel, their father. 
And Heremon and his people 
called it " Lia Phael " (The Stone 
Wonderful), for it was the sole 
witness of Jehovah's promise unto 
Jacob : " Thy seed shall be as the 
dust of the earth; thou shalt 
spread abroad to the west and to 
the east, to the north and to the 
south ; and in thee and in thy seed 
shall all the nations of the earth 
be blessed. 



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U A nation and a company of na- 
tions shall come ont of thee, and 
kings shall come ont of thy loins. 
I will keep thee in all places 
whithersoever thou goest, and will 
bring thee again into this land, 
the land of Canaan." 

And the Irish people of old 
called their altars " Bethels," as is 
known of the wise to this day. 
And in the fulness of time Paul, 
the Apostle, traveled to " the ut- 
termost parts of the west " and 
founded the Early British Church, 
and the people knew thus the 
God of their fathers as Emmanuel 
(" God-with-us"). 



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What need to tell of the gather- 
ing of the scattered and lost tribes, 
the Angles, the Jutes, the Saxons, 
and others into the Islands of 
Britain, and of their wars and of 
their mighty acts ? For these 
wars are written in the chronicles 
of all nations and are known of 
all men. 

And it came to pass that Fer- 
gus I carried the " Lia Phael," the 
Coronation Stone, from Ireland 
into Scotland, and placed it in the 
seat of his Coronation Chair, in 
the royal stronghold at Scone. 
For it was precious to him and to 



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all the Scottish kings of the line 
royal of Heremon and Circa. 
Bnt in the year 1299 Edward I, of 
England, made war npon Scotland 
and carried away the royal treas- 
ures and the Coronation Chair, 
from Scone to London, his chief 
city, and he placed it at Westmin- 
ster Abbey. And from that time 
all the Kings and Queens of En- 
gland have sat upon the Corona- 
tion Chair when crowned, even 
unto this day. Thus, when 
James, the King of Scotland, came 
to Westminster Abbey to be 
crowned King of England, he sat 



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upon the seat of his fathers, upon 
the Coronation Stone, the Li a 
Phael, the Bethel, the pillow 
whereon Jacob slept ! 

Now James loved the word of 
God ; and he was learned and very- 
wise, and thought much on all 
these things. And he placed the 
Scottish Lion, the Lion of the 
Tribe of Judah, on the shield 
of Anglo-Israel, even as it is unto 
this day. And he called together 
his wise men and he bade them 
seek out the Word of God from all 
strange tongues, and he caused it 
to be written in the tongue of the 



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common people, that all the people 
might know the Lord and His 
Word, "which giveth wisdom unto 
the simple. " And the word of God, 
this English Bible, is known of 
men as the King James Version 
even unto this day. 

And the people waxed strong 
and multiplied and honored the 
Lord, His Word, and His Sab- 
baths. (For the Lord had afore- 
time delivered them from the 
invincible Spanish Armada, 
and had scattered their enemies 
from the coasts of Anglo-Israel 
with a mighty storm wind.) And 



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the people increased yet more and 
more, till the bounds of the Is- 
lands were too narrow for them, 
and they spread abroad over the 
seas and the islands thereof " to 
the west and to the east, to the 
north and to the south," even ac- 
cording to the promise of the God 
of Israel at Bethel. And they 
carried with them the Standards 
of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah 
unto the uttermost bounds of the 
earth, and through the people of 
Anglo-Israel have the ends of the 
earth been blessed with Freedom 
and Law, and with the love of God 



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and of his Sabbaths, and of " the 
open Bible," for by the month of 
the Psalmist the Lord hath pro- 
claimed : 



"jUDAH IS MY LAW GIVER." 



Now when James was long dead, 
there were wars and rumors of 
wars, more than can here be told. 
But after many days there was 
peace among all the Nations and 
Tribes of Anglo-Israel of the Is- 
lands, and of Ango-Israel beyond 
the Sea, which is the United 
States of America, a people made 
up of " a Company of Nations," 



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from a family of thirteen colonies, 
even as the sons of Jacob, with 
the half-tribes of Ephrium and 
Manasseh were thirteen in num- 
ber. 

And in those days Victoria was 
Queen of Anglo-Israel of the 
Islands, and these be the genera- 
tions of Victoria. 

For she is of the seed of James 
of Scotland, of the line of Fergus, 
of the line of Heremon, and Circa, 
the daughter of Zedekiah, the son 
of Josiah, King of Judah, and of 
his wife Hamutal, the daughter of 
Jeremiah the Prophet. 



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Now Josiah was of the seed 
royal of David, the son of Jesse, 
who was of the seed of Jacob, son 
of Isaac, son of Abraham, u the 
friend of God," nnto whom the 
Lord said: " Thy name shall be 
Abraham, a father of many 
nations. I will make thee exceed- 
ing fruitful and kings shall come 
out of thee" (Genesis xvii). 

Now Victoria's first name was 
" Alexandria," and she was wisely 
and tenderly reared by her mother, 
and they told her not that she was 
next heir to the crown of England. 

But when she was near to years 



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of discretion, they gave her a table 
of the genealogies of the English 
Kings and she saw that she was 
next in line to the King, her nncle, 
and he was well stricken in years 
and had no child. Then Victoria 
knelt down and vowed a vow 
to the Lord, the God of her 
fathers, that she would serve Him 
and rule the people in the fear of 
Him all the days of her life. (See 
Mrs. Oliphant's history of "The 
Queen.") 

And when her uncle, William 
the King, was gathered unto his 
fathers, Victoria was crowned by 



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the Archbishop in the Temple at 
Westminster, and he gave her 
the English Bible, even as the 
High Priest of old gave nnto her 
fathers in the Temple at Jerusa- 
len "the testimony," which is the 
Law of Moses. 

And she was anointed with oil 
and was crowned Qneen, and the 
people of Anglo-Israel cried with 
a lond voice, "God save the 
Qneen!" (II Kings xi 19-12.) 

And she sat upon the seat of the 
Coronation Chair of Scone, where- 
upon every Queen and King of 
Anglo-Israel hath sat for 800 years. 



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Now the chair is of black oak, 
wrought in the Gothic manner, 
and carved with signs and names 
of great men of old. And under 
the seat of it is a stone, which is 
thirty inches long, eighteen inches 
wide and twelve inches thick ; and 
behold it is the Lia Phael of 
Heremon and Circa, from the 
pillar of the Temple at Jerusalem, 
whereby their Kings were crown- 
ed, "as the manner was" (II 
Kings xi:i4), and beside which 
they made their covenant to rule 
in the fear of the Lord God of 
Israel (II Kings xxiii:3). 




"And she was anointed with oil and was crowned Queen, and 
the people of Anglo-Israel cried with a loud voice : 
" ' Gon save the Queen ! ' " 



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And Anglo-Israel rejoiced 
greatly at the coronation of the 
Queen; and they called her no 
more Alexandria; they named her 
" Victoria." 

And in her the nation hath been 
greatly blessed, so as never before, 
and in all the regions of the earth. 
Yet had she great sorrow; for 
Albert, the husband of her youth, 
was taken away in the midst of 
his days, and the Queen, and her 
sons and her daughters, and her 
people mourned for him greatly, 
and for the love of him the Queen 
remained a widow all the days of 
her life. 



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But the Lord blessed her and 
multiplied her exceedingly; for 
her sons and her daughters, unto 
the third and fourth generations, 
have sat upon her knees; and 
behold there are fourscore sons 
and daughters of Victoria, the 
Queen of Anglo-Israel, and of 
thein are Kings and Queens of 
many nations, even as God prom- 
ised in his covenant with Abra- 
ham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

He hath multiplied the people 
also exceedingly and they " dwell 
and have dominion in the tents of 
Shem" (India and other Asiatic 



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possessions), for their hand is in 
the neck of their enemies (Gen. 
xlix:8), and they spread abroad 
more and more, over all lands and 
islands npon the face of the earth.* 
And behold the snn never sets npon 
the dominions under the standards 
of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah ! 

*The British Empire is thrice the size of 
Europe, with treble the population of all the 
Russias; it extends over 11,000,000 of square 
miles ; it occupies the fifth part of the globe ; 
it contains over one-fifth of the human race, that 
is, 350,000,000 of people ; it embraces four con- 
tinents, and more than to.ooo islands, 500 prom- 
ontories and 2,000 rivers. It is estimated that 
the British Empire possesses one-third of the 
sheep upon the earth, one-fourth of the cattle 
and one-twelfth of the horses; and the total 
shipping under the British flag is 10,452,000 tons. 



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And seeing what marvelous 
things God had wrought in her 
day, and how He had magnified 
her and her people, Victoria, the 
Empress-Queen, caused a proc- 
lamation to be sent forth to all 
lands that she would keep the 
sixtieth year of her reign for a 
jubilee unto the Lord. 

And when the day set in mem- 
ory of her coronation was fully 
come, behold there were thous- 
ands and tens of thousands of 
people of Anglo-Israel, and of the 
States beyond the seas, and from 
all the whole world, who came to 



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London, her chief city, to greet 
Victoria and to witness the glori- 
ous pageants in honor of her. 

For there were twenty score 
vessels of war for her naval 
review, hundreds of furlongs of 
floating steel ships, besides the 
naval display of all the great 
foreign powers. 

And on the set day for the feast 
of the Coronation, the Queen and 
all her house arose up early in the 
morning and went up quietly to 
the house of the Lord, and par- 
took of His Holy Feast, in great 
humility and thankfulness. 



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And later the processions form- 
ed, and there were fifty princes of 
the blood -royal riding npon 
horses, and there were princesses 
and noble ladies, glittering with 
orders and jewels, riding in car- 
riages. 

And there were soldiers with 
helmets and breast-plates and 
uniforms of scarlet and green and 
blue and gold, with flags and 
pennons of many colors, glowing 
and waving, with all the people 
shouting and cheering. 

And there was a pause for a 
short space; then a chariot with 



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eight cream-colored horses came 
onward, bearing the Empress- 
Queen. 

And the voice of the multitude 
was as the crash of a peal of 
thunder when they greeted 
Victoria, and the people sang 
together as with one voice, u God 
Save the Queen!" 

And the procession moved on 
to the Temple of Saint Paul, and 
the Archbishops came forth and 
blessed her in the name of the 
Lord; and the people waiting 
without in throngs and multitudes 
stood silent and uncovered while 



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the massed choirs of the London 
Churches chanted : 

"We praise Thee, O God; we 
acknowledge Thee to be the 
Lord ! » 

And the people remained silent 
and with bared heads, even until 
the Archbishop had given the final 
blessing. 

And the people that had come 
from other lands were astonished 
at their reverence and at their love 
for their Queen. 

And Alexandra, the wife of the 
Queen's eldest son, gave a great 
feast on that day to the poor of 



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London, and she fed bountifully 
tens upon tens of thousands, even 
to the number of fifteen score 
thousand souls. 

And the people of the United 
States, of Anglo-Israel beyond the 
seas, rejoiced also in the glory of 
the Empress-Queen, for are they 
not the "Lion's Whelp"?* 

And there was feasting and re- 
joicing in London for many days, 
of Anglo-Israel and of the stran- 
gers within her gates. 

*The gathering of the people of the United 
States in little over a century suggests a further 
winnowing of the Lost Tribes and a fulfilment of 
Jacob's prophesy regarding Judah, " Unto Him 
shall the gathering of the people be." (Genesis 
xlix: 10.) 



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And one of those that stood by 
and saw all these things, the glory 
and the greetings, and the tributes 
from all nations upon earth, said : 
"Behold, O Empress-Queen," all 
the triumphs of ancient Rome, all 
the pageants of all the earth, are 
as nothing to this thy jubilee! 
Whence is it that the Lord of all 
the earth hath thus blessed thee 
and magnified thee above all the 
kings and rulers that are upon the 
face of the earth ? " 

And the Empress-Queen, Vic- 
toria, the daughter of the seed of 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, spake 



LofC. 



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not one word, but for answer laid 
her hand upon the English Bible, 
the Word of God, which, with the 
English standards of the Lion of 
the Tribe of Judah, hath gone forth 
into all the earth to accomplish the 
thing whereunto He sent it, till 
in the last days "the knowledge of 
the Lord shall cover the earth as 
the waters cover the sea ! " 

And behold the u Lia Phael," 
"the Stone Wonderful," of the 
seat of the Coronation Chair, which 
was the sole witness of the bless- 
ing of God unto Jacob, was as it 
were a testimony of the faithful- 



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ness of Him who promised : " Thy 
seed shall be as the dust of the 
earth, as the stars of the heavens 
innumerable, as the sands upon 
the sea-shore which no man may 
number ! " 

And behold now this Princess of 
the royal line of David hath been 
called to go the way of all the 
earth ; and the peoples and the 
princes and the chief men and 
women of all known nations have 
united in tributes of love and sor- 
row, and her princely dust rests 
with that of the husband of her 
youth, in the hope of a joyful res- 




" As the dust of the earth, 
As the stars of the heavens innumerable, 
As the sands upon the sea-shore 
Which no man may number." 



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urrection, when the God of her 
fathers shall give her " the Crown 
of Life " reserved for them who are 
"faithful unto death!" 

Once more a King of the Tribe 
of Judah hath received the crown 
and the testimony, having been 
anointed with the oil " as the 
manner was " in the Temple at 
Jerusalem, and Victoria's son sits 
upon the seat of the Coronation 
Chair, the pillar of Israel at Bethel, 
the Lia Phael of Heremon and 
Circa, the Dominion Stone of 
Fergus of Scotland and Edward of 
England, which keepeth its solemn 



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vigil while the cry goeth up from 
thousands and tens of thousands of 
Anglo-Israel of the Islands and 
beyond the seas : 
God Save King Edward VII ! 



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